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Penguin Random House UK and Amazon are in dispute over terms,
with a new contract under negotiation.
If a deal is not reached Amazon could begin to pull or
downgrade the availability of PRH titles from its ecommerce channels as it
did with Hachette Book Group USA titles last year. With a number of PRH
titles in Amazon's current bestseller chart, there is no indication as yet
that Amazon is ratcheting up the pressure on PRH UK.
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Amazon has started booking sales made to customers in the UK
through the UK branch, instead of diverting sales through Luxembourg.
The company’s new arrangements came into force on 1st May.
Previously retail sales have been recorded in Luxembourg, where Amazon has
its European headquarters, regardless of where in Europe the customer is.
This means Amazon has been able to take advantage of Luxembourg’s lower tax
rate.
As of 1st May, Amazon is now recording retail sales made to
customers in the UK through the UK branch, meaning it will be taxed by
HMRC.
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HarperCollins, which will start publishing German-language
books in the autumn, is not the only international publisher to set up shop
in Germany. Munich-based Verlagsgruppe Random House has just announced the
launch of Penguin Verlag.
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Publishers and booksellers are expecting this year’s summer
reading to be driven by key hardback releases, contrasting sharply to the
focus in recent years on paperback and backlist.
Nearly all retailers contacted by The Bookseller heavily tipped two of the
most hyped books of the year to top the summer charts: Harper Lee’s To Kill
a Mockingbird follow-up Go
Set a Watchman (Heinemann, 14th July) and David Lagercrantz’s
continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl in the Spider’s Web (MacLehose
Press, 27th August).
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The Frankfurt Book Fair has made what it calls "a
significant investment" in IPR License, a rights and licensing trading
platform set up by Legend Press founder Tom Chalmers.
As part of the deal, Frankfurt will take a minority
shareholding in IPR License, with the two companies working together on a
sales, marketing and tech licensing partnership, to "establish the IPR
platform TradeRights as the industry standard tool for rights and licensing
transactions."
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Harlequin in the US is creating a new audio imprint, working
in conjunction with HarperAudio.
The new imprint, Harlequin Audio, will produce audio versions
of Harlequin's print titles, with the aim of releasing 200 titles in its
first year, with the first titles published on 30th June 2015.
The move follows the acquisition of Harlequin by HarperCollins,
a deal which concluded last year.
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Goldsboro Books is to expand in June, increasing its size by a
third. The high-profile independent bookshop, founded in 1999, is currently
based at 23–25 Cecil Court in the heart of London’s theatre district. It
will expand into the adjacent premises, at 27 Cecil Court, in June.
David Headley, co-founder of the bookshop which specialises in
signed first-edition books, said the company plans to knock through the
wall to give the bookshop 30% more space, with a refurbishment planned for
the whole shop.
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Bantam Press publishing director Sally Gaminara is to retire
this year.
Gaminara’s publishing career has spanned nearly 40 years, and
she joined Transworld’s Corgi imprint in 1987 from Penguin Books. She moved
to the Doubleday team in 1989, where she published Prince Charles' book, A Vision of Britain.
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The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), one of
the oldest publishers in the UK, has launched a children’s list.
The publisher, which has existed since 1698, has released the
“odd” children’s book in the past, but this is the first time it has set up
a dedicated list. It will publish eight titles this year, and around six
books annually thereafter.
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Virago Modern Classics is to release two new editions of three
of Daphne du Maurier’s most famous novels to attract new readers for the
author, who has “cross-generational appeal”.
Rebecca, Jamaica
Inn and Frenchman’s
Creek will each be released in two editions: one to appeal to
her “core readership”, and one for a young adult readership.
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Literacy charity has promoted Ginny Lunn, former director of
programme development, partnerships and policy, to the position of c.e.o.
Lunn will take up her new position on the 1st June and
replaces Sue Porto, who left the charity on 30th April to become c.e.o. of
St. John’s Hospital in Bath.
Jamie Pike, Beanstalk chair of trustees, said: “Ginny has a
wealth of experience gained across a range of organisations, which the
board is fully confident will allow her to guide Beanstalk on its journey
towards helping 18,000 children a year by 2018.”
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Transworld is reissuing Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Small Island
(August, £8.99) with artwork to match the author’s new title, The Road to Little Dribbling: More
Notes from a Small Island (October, £20).
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